Saturday, 28 April 2012

Alan Johnson, former British Minister of the Interior,
who stepped down in May 2010, argued yesterday that Theresa
May put pressure on the Portuguese government to reopen the investigation
into Maddie case. Perhaps this low quality politician has a bad habit, from
the time when he was UK-s Interior Minister – giving orders to judges,
magistrates and public prosecutor’s. I thought that, in UK, the rule of
Law and the independence of the courts was something respected by the
Government, since long time ago.

But when I read Mr. Alan Johnson remarks, I realized I may
be wrong. In most democratic countries, it’s unacceptable a Government member calling
a judge or a public prosecutor and tell them what to do about a crime case. But it seems that Mr. Alan Johnson see this procedure as
something normal. I wonder how many times he gave orders to public prosecutors
and/or judges. And I also wonder what kind of magistrates, judges and public
prosecutors they have in UK,
in order to allow a Government member to give them orders.

Anyway, after a few searches online, I found a answer to
my questions. It seems that Mr. Alan Johnson was also a very sensitive Interior
Minister, who took a great care not to disturb some people and be a nice
politician, in their eyes. Like, for example, when he “blocked an independent
inquiry into Scotland Yard’s phone hacking investigation in 2009”, as the Leveson
Inquiry heard, last March (according to the “Mail Online”:

Friday, 27 April 2012

No request for reopening the case
of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been received at the Portuguese Public Prosecutor Office. Both the Attorney General's Office (PGR) and the National Directorate of
Judicial Police (PJ) maintain say there are no grounds to reopen the
investigation. "Only when there are new facts and new credible evidence the process
can be reopened. Just hypotheses are not enough”, said the attorney general,
Pinto Monteiro, stressing that there were" thousands of false sightings"
of the child. Also Pedro do Carmo, assistant national director of PJ, told that, until
now, "there are no facts that justify the reopening of the case." Pedro do Carmo said that the process of the
disappearance of Maddie, then four years old, from the apartment where he was
vacationing with her parents and siblings in Praia da Luz in theAlgarve, is being
re-examined jointly by Scotland Yard and a team of PJ fromOporto,
led by Helena Monteiro, a PJ top coordinator. According to British media, British police
revealed yesterday that 195 "new leads” were detected” in the reviewing of
the so-called Maddie case.